Criminal
Aug. 28, 2001
Pay Up
The defendants who are most likely to obtain attorney fees are those who can become aggressive investigators and prosecutors against the government.
In 1997, there was a dramatic change in the law. Congress passed the Hyde Amendment - legislation entitling ordinary criminal defendants, not just those subject to independent-counsel investigations, to recover attorney fees if they prevailed in their criminal cases and met certain requirements of the act. Pub. L. No. 105-119, Title VI, ...
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